Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

12.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

25.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

36.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.